These printable alphabet writing worksheets will help your students learn how to write each letter of the alphabet properly in no time at all! The best part? You can just print and go!
Before we can expect our preschool or kindergarten students to start reading or writing, they must know the names, sounds, and shapes of the letters. This requires quite a bit of practice and intentional instruction for several reasons, but especially because letters are abstract symbols. To young kids, they seem arbitrary. They can hear the /b/ /a/ /t/ sounds in the word bat, but how did we come up with the letter B for the /b/ sound?
Because of this, it's really important to focus on phonological and phonemic awareness skills early on! The more your students can isolate and identify the individual sounds in words, the easier they will be able to match those sounds to the letters in the future.
Once you add in different letter cases, it all becomes much more confusing unless your students have a strong foundation of phonemic awareness. Plus, we have to consider our students' fine motor skills. It's one thing to know which letter matches each sound in a word, and it's an entirely different skill to be able to write those letters down consistently on paper!
Fortunately, these printable alphabet tracing worksheets can address several of these issues. They can help your students develop their letter recognition skills, practise forming lower case letters, write their own names, and more!
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Best Alphabet Writing Worksheets for Kids
The alphabet printables below can be used in several different ways. I often like to add them to pocket sleeves (or write and wipe mats) to make them reusable, but you can also print off a set of the practice worksheets to make little workbooks. These pages are all about repetition, so they’re great for morning activities or literacy centers!
Editable Letter, Number & Name Formation Mats
These free printable worksheets are the perfect place to start! They include the lower case letters and numbers 0-9, but they’re also customisable!
You can add each child’s name to the template for a personalised morning activity they can use again and again.
Letter Tracing Worksheets
These letter tracing worksheets help students learn how to form letters, numbers, and shapes while developing those essential fine motor skills! They just need to follow the dotted lines to build that muscle memory.
If your students aren't quite ready to write the letters on their own, give them these letter formation playdough mats to help them build the necessary hand strength!
Letter Formation Mats
Although these printable letter formation mats are similar to the other options above, they’re much more comprehensive. The bundle includes 6 different Australian fonts with each number and letter, including directional arrows to make sure they form each one properly.
You can even print these ABC tracing worksheets into a workbook for your young learners to practise independently!
Letter Cousins
Do your kids struggle with letter formation? Teach the letter cousins! This strategy breaks the letters down into individual shapes, focusing on the most common shapes first (like l, c, u, and r). Once your students know these basic shapes or “bosses,” they can make many other letters really easily.
Get these related letters worksheets to teach this idea and help your students learn how to write the letters faster than ever!
See letter cousins in action here:
Missing Letters Printables
If you want to reinforce several different skills with one simple task, you need these no prep alphabet worksheets! There are ten different grids for both the uppercase letters and lowercase letters, and each one is missing a bunch of letters. Your students have to fill in the missing letters while in alphabetical order to complete the grid. I love that it teaches the letter cases and alphabetical order at the same time!
Lined Handwriting Sheets
Once your students are ready to start writing their own letters, they'll need these simple lined handwriting sheets which are a FREE download from the Freebee Library. There are several versions, including one with dotted lines and the ground/grass/sky colours.
Print out a bunch to add to your writing station!
Name Writing Practice Pages
It's very important that young children learn how to write their names, but this takes quite a bit of practice at the beginning. Fortunately, these printable name writing pages offer several ways to practise this skill in fun, developmentally appropriate ways. Great for preschool and kindergarten!
Alphabet Crafts
Although these crafts don't practise print handwriting, they're a fun way to practise letter recognition, help your students connect each lower case letter with the upper case letter and letter sound, and get some fine motor practice at the same time!
There are over 20 of these free printable alphabet worksheets in the Freebee Library ready to go at any time, like this Letter E craftivity.
Download ALL the beginning sound alphabet crafts here.
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